Who were the Molly Maguires? Learn about this violent secret society that started in Ireland to protect peasants during the potato famine of the 1840s, then resurfaced in the hard coal region of ...

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POTTSVILLE — John “Black Jack” Kehoe was not the leader of the so-called Molly Maguires, and was innocent of the crime for which he was hanged in 1878, a direct descendant said recently at a ...